Timothy MEIGS

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: 1732 - Yake College

Timothy married Mary FRENCH on 17 Sep 1735 in Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut. Mary was born on 15 Feb 1720 in Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut; died on 15 Mar 1788; was buried in North Madison West Side Cemetery, North Madison, New Haven Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ruth MEIGS was born on 01 May 1737 in Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut; died on 06 Jan 1814.
2. Statira MEIGS was born on 14 Sep 1741 in Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut; died in Aug 1778 in Madison, New Haven Co., Connecticut.
3. John French MEIGS was born on 10 Jan 1744; died on 04 Nov 1767; was buried in North Madison West Side Cemetery, North Madison, New Haven Co., Connecticut.
4. Mabel MEIGS was born on 14 Apr 1739 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 20 Oct 1800 in Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut.
5. Mary MEIGS was born on 26 Apr 1746 in Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut.
6. Timothy MEIGS was born on 02 Mar 1751 in Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut; died on 13 Nov 1827; was buried in North Madison West Side Cemetery, North Madison, New Haven Co., Connecticut.
7. Hannah MEIGS was born on 02 Dec 1748 in Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Janna ?
• Name: James Meigs
• Birth: 21 Dec 1672

Notes:

First Magistrate of East Guilford, Ct., deputy 1716-26.

Jannah married Hannah WILLARD on 18 May 1698 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Hannah (daughter of Josiah WILLARD and Hannah HOSMER) was born in 1674 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 04 Jan 1750 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; was buried in Hammonassett Cemetery, Madison, New Haven Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Sarah WILCOXSON on 07 Mar 1665 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Sarah (daughter of William WILCOXSON and Margaret ?) was born on 26 Oct 1648 in Stratford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; died on 24 Nov 1691 in Killingworth, Middlesex Co., Connecticut; was buried in Hammonassett Cemetery, Madison, New Haven Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Sarah Wilcox

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: 23 Jul 1674, Possessions inventoried
• Fact: 03 Sep 1674, Court record will

Josiah married Hannah HOSMER on 20 Mar 1656 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Thomas Hosmer

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: 1657, Freeman

Notes:

John changed the spelling of the name to Meigs, its present form. He was married in England, and his eldest child, Mary was born there. John resided in Weymouth, Mass. and in New Haven, Conn. in 1647; removed to Guilford, Conn. in 1654, and to Killingworth, Conn, in 1663, where he was made a freeman in 1669. In 1654 he was admitted a planter in that portion of Guilford now included in Madison, upon certain conditions pertaining to the purchase of land there. He is not represented as having been a quiet man, nor Puritanical in his character, for he was sometimes turbulent and given to having litigation with the town authorities. Yet he was public spirited withal, and rendered some good public services.. He was a man of superior intellectual type, as appears by the manuscripts and books mentioned in his will, and he must have been a man of considerable education and culture. He was many times entrusted with public business, serving as Constable, and Representative to Hartford. Was a tanner , had a large estate, and some books, of which one was a Latin and Greek Dictionary. John was a one time, 1648-1658, second owner by purchase of the Cutler lot (SE corner of Chapel and Church streets, New Haven). The deed of conveyance reads: "Wm Jeanes passeth over to John Meigs his house and house lot lying at the corner over against Mr. Gregson's--betwixt the house lot of John Budd and the highway." Col. Return Jonathan Meigs was a descendant, whose son became Governor of Ohio and Postmaster-General of the United States.
According to Stiles' History of the Regicides, it was John Meigs who rode to New Haven to warn the regicides.

John married Thomasine FRY in 1630. Thomasine (daughter of William FRY and Sarah HILL) was born in 1610 in England; was buried in Guilford Cementary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Abt 1635, Came over on the ship "Planter"
• Fact: 1636, Freeman
• Residence: 1639, Removed to Stratford, Connecticut
• Fact: 1647, Representative at Hartford

William married Margaret ?. Margaret was born about 1611. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Excerpt from genealogy.com: Connecticut, 1600-1800s Local Families and Histories, History of Wethersfield - He and wife came, May 1634, to Boston Mass., in company with his sister Margery and her husband Capt. Doler Davis, and soon became known as a prosperous merchant in Cambridge. In the fall of 1635, he with Rev. Peter Bulkeley, DD, led the movement which resulted in the settlement of Concord. He was Concord's first dep. to the Gen. Ct., 1636, and was re-elected every subsequent yr. until 1654, with three exceptions. He was, for 22 yrs. a memb. of Curt of Assistants, 1654 to death; figured prominently with Rev. John Eliot in settlement with the Inds.; in 1653 was elected Sgrt. Maj. of the Middlesex Co. Troops and played an important part in King Philip's War; rem. to Lancaster, 1659; Groton, 1671-2 where he held many town offices. He d. 24 apr 1676, in Charlestown, Mass.

Excerpt from "WILLARD-HOSMER": To America in 1634. Lived at Cambridge, Middlesec Co., Mass. 1634, Concord 1635, Lancaster 1660, Groton 1672, Salem 1676. Major WILLARD's military career is detailed in Soldiers in King Philip's War, by George M. Bodge (Leominster, MA: 1896), pages 120-126. Simon was Clerk of Writs at Concord, MA for 19 years, and also served as Surveyor of Arms. It was whle he lived at Concord that he was promoted to major in 1653. When past age 70 he led 47 men thirty miles to route the Indians from an attack on Brookfield, MA. Married first in England; second about 1643, Concord, MA to Elizabeth Dunster (d. about 1643) ,daughter of Henry Dunster (bur. Sep 16, 1646, Bury, Lancaster) and Isabel Kaye; and third about 1645 Mary Dunster (b. Dec 15, 1630, Bury, Lancaster; d. Dec 28, 1715, Sudbury,MA) cousin of Elizabeth and daughter of Robert Dunster and mary Gerrett. Simon had no children by Elizabeth and his ten youngest were by his third marriage. As the widow of Maj. Willard, Mary married second, on Jul 19, 1680, Dea. Joseph NOYES. Simon's first marriage was recorded at marden, Kent as: Simon Willard & Mary Sharpe were married the 13 day (Oct. 1638).

Simon married Mary SHARPE. Mary was christened on 16 Oct 1614 in Horsmonden, Kent, England; died between 1642 and 1643 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Henry Sharpe and Jane Feylde
• Baptism: 16 Oct 1614, Horsmonden, Kent, England